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Another email forward, pretty good;

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Flash Tool created by some folks at XDA is one of the very powerful and noob-friendly tool that actually does many tasks and I’ve tried this on my X10, it just works great. Let’s look at what all it can do;

A very handy tool and you can’t go wrong with this UI tool.

It helps you to;

• Root your Xperia X10 (works on latest 2.1 Sony firmware).
• Customize – by removing the bloatware’s that comes with the Sony firmware (can remove the stuff that you don’t use, like creatouch, moxiermail etc…)
• It can install both xrecovery and busybox.
• It can even install custom flash’s onto X10. The best part is, you can recover the phone back to original Sony Firmware as well, if you have change of thought!
• Clear Dalvik Cache.
• Optimize.

In their own words;

FlashTool now is something like an all in one Tool for your phone.
It can:
- Flash original Images (Android 1.6 & Android 2.1 Images)
- Root your phone (Only if the phone is on a 2.1 android version)
- Install xRecovery, Busybox
- Clean your Rom (remove /system/apps apps of your choice) (Be careful, unless you really know what you do, do not modify the default list. This can make your phone stuck at the SE Logo)
- Clear dalvik cache
- Optimize (install of JIT v2)
- Customize (installs apps found in the custom/apps folder of the flashtool)
- Clean uninstalled (remove any references to system apps removed in the Clean (root needed) step)
- Edit /system/build.prop

Download the tool from XDA Forum Here you can find different Sony Original Regional ROM’s as well. A handy one to keep it. I have to tell you, after I used it to clean all the crap from the X10, it definitely was blazing fast.

Robert Gerrish gives advice on prioritizing opportunities and not chasing every lead that presents itself!

One of the place on web I regularly follow, pretty good articles/video’s. Click on the link to watch the video, it is quite interesting and for me some persona’s reminds me this one again and again

Source: bNet.com

Watching over CNN, after Egypt similar demands are going on across several Islamic countries like Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and how many more is something yet to be seen.

Now NetworkWorld says that the internet connection in Libya is cut down as more and more people at hitting down the roads with protest! Guess it is for good.

Source: Mathrubhumi

Thiruvananthapuram : The number of unemployed, including medical graduates and engineers, has risen to 4.3 million in Kerala, says an economic review tabled in the assembly Wednesday.
As of June 2010, the number of unemployed included 1.6 million professional and technical job seekers. In 2009 the total unemployed tally stood at 4.3 million.
The unemployed include 1,885 medical graduates, 6,965 engineers, 34,653 diploma holders, 361 agricultural graduates and 345 veterinary graduates as well as 44,976 post-graduates.
As of March 31, 2010, over 2.4 million women were seeking work compared to over 1.7 million men.
Thiruvanathapuram district had the highest number of unemployed followed by Kollam, reveals the review. Wayanad had the least number of unemployed at 88,940.
Figures also show that as of December 2009, a total of 615,431 people were employed in the public sector and 501,265 in the private sector.

So much for a state that was and is declared ‘Fully Literate State’ in India!

Guess, Nokia decided to wake up and do something, couple of years back – there was nothing to beat Nokia and the cozy comfort got them into their present state of no-where? I guess, there is more to it which can’t be speculated. Competitors eat each other given an opportunity, now if it is from ‘inside-out’ or ‘outside-in’ doesn’t really matter!

Got this CEO’s memo, apparently many believe it is *real*, source : Engadget It is long but an interesting read!

Hello there,
There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from a loud explosion, which suddenly set his entire oil platform on fire. In mere moments, he was surrounded by flames. Through the smoke and heat, he barely made his way out of the chaos to the platform’s edge. When he looked down over the edge, all he could see were the dark, cold, foreboding Atlantic waters.
As the fire approached him, the man had mere seconds to react. He could stand on the platform, and inevitably be consumed by the burning flames. Or, he could plunge 30 meters in to the freezing waters. The man was standing upon a "burning platform," and he needed to make a choice.
He decided to jump. It was unexpected. In ordinary circumstances, the man would never consider plunging into icy waters. But these were not ordinary times – his platform was on fire. The man survived the fall and the waters. After he was rescued, he noted that a "burning platform" caused a radical change in his behaviour.
We too, are standing on a "burning platform," and we must decide how we are going to change our behaviour.
Over the past few months, I’ve shared with you what I’ve heard from our shareholders, operators, developers, suppliers and from you. Today, I’m going to share what I’ve learned and what I have come to believe.
I have learned that we are standing on a burning platform.
And, we have more than one explosion – we have multiple points of scorching heat that are fuelling a blazing fire around us.
For example, there is intense heat coming from our competitors, more rapidly than we ever expected. Apple disrupted the market by redefining the smartphone and attracting developers to a closed, but very powerful ecosystem.
In 2008, Apple’s market share in the $300+ price range was 25 percent; by 2010 it escalated to 61 percent. They are enjoying a tremendous growth trajectory with a 78 percent earnings growth year over year in Q4 2010. Apple demonstrated that if designed well, consumers would buy a high-priced phone with a great experience and developers would build applications. They changed the game, and today, Apple owns the high-end range.
And then, there is Android. In about two years, Android created a platform that attracts application developers, service providers and hardware manufacturers. Android came in at the high-end, they are now winning the mid-range, and quickly they are going downstream to phones under €100. Google has become a gravitational force, drawing much of the industry’s innovation to its core.
Let’s not forget about the low-end price range. In 2008, MediaTek supplied complete reference designs for phone chipsets, which enabled manufacturers in the Shenzhen region of China to produce phones at an unbelievable pace. By some accounts, this ecosystem now produces more than one third of the phones sold globally – taking share from us in emerging markets.
While competitors poured flames on our market share, what happened at Nokia? We fell behind, we missed big trends, and we lost time. At that time, we thought we were making the right decisions; but, with the benefit of hindsight, we now find ourselves years behind.
The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don’t have a product that is close to their experience. Android came on the scene just over 2 years ago, and this week they took our leadership position in smartphone volumes. Unbelievable.
We have some brilliant sources of innovation inside Nokia, but we are not bringing it to market fast enough. We thought MeeGo would be a platform for winning high-end smartphones. However, at this rate, by the end of 2011, we might have only one MeeGo product in the market.
At the midrange, we have Symbian. It has proven to be non-competitive in leading markets like North America. Additionally, Symbian is proving to be an increasingly difficult environment in which to develop to meet the continuously expanding consumer requirements, leading to slowness in product development and also creating a disadvantage when we seek to take advantage of new hardware platforms. As a result, if we continue like before, we will get further and further behind, while our competitors advance further and further ahead.
At the lower-end price range, Chinese OEMs are cranking out a device much faster than, as one Nokia employee said only partially in jest, "the time that it takes us to polish a PowerPoint presentation." They are fast, they are cheap, and they are challenging us.
And the truly perplexing aspect is that we’re not even fighting with the right weapons. We are still too often trying to approach each price range on a device-to-device basis.
The battle of devices has now become a war of ecosystems, where ecosystems include not only the hardware and software of the device, but developers, applications, ecommerce, advertising, search, social applications, location-based services, unified communications and many other things. Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem. This means we’re going to have to decide how we either build, catalyse or join an ecosystem.
This is one of the decisions we need to make. In the meantime, we’ve lost market share, we’ve lost mind share and we’ve lost time.
On Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s informed that they will put our A long term and A-1 short term ratings on negative credit watch. This is a similar rating action to the one that Moody’s took last week. Basically it means that during the next few weeks they will make an analysis of Nokia, and decide on a possible credit rating downgrade. Why are these credit agencies contemplating these changes? Because they are concerned about our competitiveness.
Consumer preference for Nokia declined worldwide. In the UK, our brand preference has slipped to 20 percent, which is 8 percent lower than last year. That means only 1 out of 5 people in the UK prefer Nokia to other brands. It’s also down in the other markets, which are traditionally our strongholds: Russia, Germany, Indonesia, UAE, and on and on and on.
How did we get to this point? Why did we fall behind when the world around us evolved?
This is what I have been trying to understand. I believe at least some of it has been due to our attitude inside Nokia. We poured gasoline on our own burning platform. I believe we have lacked accountability and leadership to align and direct the company through these disruptive times. We had a series of misses. We haven’t been delivering innovation fast enough. We’re not collaborating internally.
Nokia, our platform is burning.
We are working on a path forward — a path to rebuild our market leadership. When we share the new strategy on February 11, it will be a huge effort to transform our company. But, I believe that together, we can face the challenges ahead of us. Together, we can choose to define our future.
The burning platform, upon which the man found himself, caused the man to shift his behaviour, and take a bold and brave step into an uncertain future. He was able to tell his story. Now, we have a great opportunity to do the same.
Stephen.

CNN reports that Egypt’s main internet Service Provider’s links are down and it means on the Internet, Egypt is disconnected. I think this is first of this kind!

Read the full story by heading over to CNN

Have some time, watch this TED video;

So at the time when I watched this, the theory of ‘work doesn’t happen at work’ seems to be agreed by over 95% of the people who voted!

Does it matter to you? If yes, recommend you to watch this one; The SDK is released to the developers.